Dayana Yastremska plays a forehand instrumentality to Elena Rybakina during their 3rd circular lucifer astatine the Australian Open. (INSET) Yastremska's connection connected Instagram Stories. (AP Photo, Dayana Yastremska/Instagram)
Dayana Yastremska whitethorn person been eliminated from the Australian Open successful the 3rd circular astatine the hands of Elena Rybakina, but adjacent aft that she seemingly sent retired a hopeless SOS via her Instagram Stories asking for a hitting partner.
According to media reports, the Ukrainian tennis subordinate who was ousted aft a 3-6, 4-6 decision to Rybakina, posted a plea for a hitting spouse connected her societal media account.
The advertisement read: “I request hitting partner! Emergency!! Travelling 25 weeks+”
Her database of requirements did not extremity there.
Yastremska added that she was looking for a hitting spouse successful the 18-35 property group. The subordinate besides needed to person a “ranking astatine slightest apical 50 ITF” and needed to beryllium a “minimum erstwhile 400 ATP”.
The satellite No 33 Yastremska, who was a semifinalist successful Melbourne past twelvemonth astatine the Australian Open, added her interaction email for prospective candidates to scope out.
This led to immoderate jokes connected the circuit and connected the Tennis Channel Live broadcast, arsenic reported by an nonfiction connected Tennis.com.
Former satellite No. 1 Lindsay Davenport chuckled that Yasremska’s parameters for the hitting spouse “were excessively strict”. She added that the extent successful men’s tennis is the champion it’s ever been.
Meanwhile, Prakash Amritraj joked that she missed an accidental by not asking prospective candidates to “slide into her DMs [direct messages].”
After her ouster from the Australian Open, the archetypal expansive slam of the year, she posted connected her Instagram handle: “Could beryllium amended could beryllium worse, but it is what it is.”
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